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Iv. 6 Chedasatras
कल्पसूत्र
Kalpasūtra (646 )
(Kappasutta )
183. No. 496
1871-72. Size.--103 in. by 44 in. Extent.— 63 folios ; 7 lines to a page ; 40 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, rough and greyish; Jaina Deva
nāgari characters with occasional AETS ; bold, quite legible and tolerably good hand-writing ; borders ruled in four lines in black ink; the intervening space between the pairs coloured yellow ; every numbered side is decorated with a small design in each of the two margins; fol. 16b spoiled; condition very good; fol. 1a blank; fol. 636 decorated with a design in red ink; incomplete as it ends abruptly at the beginning of the gth couplet of Fuerat; thus Only the first part viz. Jinacarita is complete; it ends on fol. 55b; on fol. 1 we find Gujarāti explanation written above and below the lines of the text, probably in the same hand but the
attempt is given up after writing four lines. Age.-- Not quite modern. Author.-- Bhadrabāhusvāmin ( according to the tradition). Subject---This work is known as Paryusaņā--kalpa and forms the
8th chapter of Daśāśrutaskandha, one of the chedasútras already noted. This Kalpasūtra is divided into 3 våcyas (sections in Samdehavişausadhi, Subodhikā etc., as under:
(1) Jinacarita, (2) Sthavirāvali and (3) Sāmācārī.
In Jinacaritra the life of Lord Mahāvīra occupies the major portion. The conception, transference of the embryo and the birth of Mahāvīra are described in the same way as in Acārāngasūtra. Then come the 14 dreams, their inter
1 This is narrated "in great detail, with great diffuseness with descriptions in he Kavya style and with exaggerations beyond all measure". So says Winternitz. Vide "A History of Indian Literature” vol. II, p. 463.